The Rural Economy of Guangdong, 1870-1937
A Study of the Agrarian Crisis and its Origins in Southernmost China
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The relationship between rents and prices of owner-occupied housing in Taiwan
This article analyzes the changes of equilibrium rent and equilibrium price of owner-occupied housing in Taiwan, and also computes the rent multiplier and its trend in the past ten years in Taiwan to show how ...
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Conclusion
Scholars addressing the topic of the late Qing and Republican rural economy too often see themselves as protagonists of this or that particular school of thought that holds the key to a true understanding of c...
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The Man-Land Ratio and its Effects on Agriculture
It is pertinent to begin our study of rural Guangdong by examining the two principal inputs of traditional agriculture, namely, land and labour. Labour was the primary instrument for increasing production with...
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Trade and the Transformation of the Rural Economy
Guangdong had been an important centre of trade between China and the outside world for a long time. In the period under study, however, the pattern of trade was quite distinct from that of the past in both qu...
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Landlord-Tenant Relations
Landlordism in Guangdong was a much more complex phenomenon than most people have recognized. Two special features of the pattern of landownership deserve our attention. The first was the conspicuousness of in...
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Introduction
Rural China faced a crisis situation in the 1920s. As the crisis deepened in the early 1930s, intellectuals of different persuasions expressed their grave concern for the fate of China through an intense debat...
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Paddy Production and the Problem of Rice Shortage
Food constitutes the basic need to sustain human life. Such a need was certainly appreciated by the Chinese peasants, as evidenced by the almost sacred nature of grains in Chinese folk thought. Indeed, the not...
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Land Tax, Surtaxes, Miscellaneous Fees and Extra-Legal Charges
The land tax system from the early eighteenth century right through to the 1930s was dualistic in nature: a formal system regulated by statutes existed; but since it was incapable of meeting the ever-growing d...
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Sources of Credit and Overseas Remittances
It is obvious from the foregoing chapters that most peasants would find it difficult to maintain their livelihood and farm operation without access to credit. This chapter will examine various sources of credi...
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World Bank Policies, Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction
In the early 1990s, international arrangements for the environment were broadened to include a new dimension: the protection of the global environment, in particular the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emiss...
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On the optimal production and location of a labor-managed firm
This paper endeavors to introduce space into the theory of the Labor-Managed firm (LMF) and to investigate its optimal production and location decisions. It is shown that the degree of returns to scale plays a k...
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Sources and Moderators of Employee Stress in State-Owned Enterprises
This study examined the linear and curvilinear relationships between job and situational stressors and stress using questionnaire data provided by 1, 100 employees in China. Results show that job demands had a...
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A bi-level programming model for the land use – network design problem
A sketch map in urban planning roughly lays out a physical plan. However, the process of generating sketches has long been viewed as a “black box”. The sketch layout model (SLM) was developed in 1999 to improve ...
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Exclusion theorem in an efficiency wage model
This paper uses Shapiro and Stiglitz’s (1984) efficiency wage model embodying the firm’s choice of location to show the existence of an optimal intermediate location without assuming a transport rate that incr...
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Analysis of property prices before and after the opening of the Taipei subway system
Since the development of Taipei subway system, which represented a new type of infrastructure in Taiwan, various studies have conducted with-and-without comparisons before the opening of the subway systems. Ho...
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The distribution of regional property crime and police deployment—The price of equality
This study allows the probability of being apprehended to be a function of the number of police per capita, and assumes that the total supply of police is fixed. A country consists of two communities, which ar...
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Spatially varying development mechanisms in the Greater Bei**g Area: a geographically weighted regression investigation
This study aims to extend the understanding of regional development mechanisms in China. This study investigates spatial non-stationarity in China’s regional development mechanisms by applying geographically w...
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Equity Capital Flows and Demand for REITs
REITs are attractive to investors due to their unique characteristics such as high dividend yields, low correlation with common stocks, and a potential hedge against inflation. Thus the market demand curve of ...
